Osteichthyes - Ophidiiformes - Bythitidae

Full reference: W. Schwarzhans, D. E. Lee, and H. J. L. Gard. 2017. Otoliths reveal diverse fish communities in Late Oligocene estuarine to deep-water paleoenvironments in southern Zealandia. New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics 60(4):433-464

Belongs to Aotearichthys according to J. H. Robinson et al. 2024

See also Schwarzhans 2019 and Schwarzhans et al. 2017

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: OU22810, an otolith. Its type locality is Bailey Bend, which is in a Waitakian marine mudstone in New Zealand.

Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore-parasite

Distribution: found only at Bailey Bend

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Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.